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Fiesta de las Flores is the oldest Hispanic festival in the Southwest. The three-day fiesta is held each year during the Labor Day weekend and emphasizes El Paso's Hispanic heritage and culture. The festival attracts 20,000 to 30,000 visitors from El Paso County, New Mexico, West Texas and the state of Chihuahua, Mexico. [4]
The garden has been maintained by El Paso Master Gardeners since 2007, who work as volunteers. [14] The garden is multi-level and also includes waterfalls and a koi pond . [ 15 ] The garden is open seasonally, from the beginning of March until the end of November. [ 14 ]
The small area labeled "La Guna" is now known as "La Calavera" or "Skull Canyon", for its location by the Smeltertown Cemetery. Smeltertown was a residential community in El Paso County, Texas, [1] housing the workers of the ASARCO smelter and their families, between El Paso and the Texas borders with Mexico and New Mexico.
Copano (Spanish: El Copano) is a ghost town on the northwestern shore of Copano Bay in Refugio County, Texas. It is located 5 mi (8.0 km) north of present-day Bayside , on Copano Point. The port, which holds the distinction as the first in South Texas , [ 1 ] was founded in the early 18th century by the Spanish, and named for the Copane Indians ...
Ernesto Angel Ignacio Buenrostro y Buenrostro (31 July 1899 – 28 February 1966) [1] [2] was an architect of various Art Deco style residential buildings in the Hipódromo neighborhood of the Condesa area of Mexico City. His works include: Edificio San Martín (Avenida México 167; built 1931; renovated 1998-9) [3] [4]
Dolores was established as a Mexican village called San José in 1860. In 1882, the Cannel Coal Company opened mines along the Rio Grande. Cannel Coal Company built the Rio Grande and Eagle Pass Railroad to ship coal from the town and renamed the San José village after its company president's daughter Dolores.
El Camino Real de los Tejas routes in Spanish Texas. Alonso de León, Spanish governor of Coahuila, established the corridor for what became El Camino Real de Tierra Afuera in multiple expeditions to East Texas between 1686 and 1690 to find and destroy a French fort near Lavaca Bay, [2] established by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle on what de León considered to be Spanish lands.
Socorro is a city in El Paso County, Texas, United States.It is located on the north bank of the Rio Grande southeast of El Paso, and on the border of Mexico.El Paso adjoins it on the west and the smaller city of San Elizario on the southeast; small unincorporated areas of El Paso County separate it from the nearby municipalities of Horizon City to the north and Clint to the east.